Support for portable scales



Dec. 15, 1942.

- J. L. PRINCE SUPPORT FOR PORTABLE SCALES Filed Jan. 2,

Inventor mszeazrion T752266 M Home Patented Dec. 15, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SUPPORT F OR PORTABLE SCALES James Leairton Prince, Lepanto, Ark. Application January '2, 19 2, Serial No. 425,458

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in supports for portable scales, the principal object in view being to provide quick detachable and attachable equipment for the rear end of a wagon body for suspending scales during weighing operations, and which is simple in construction, strong, yet light in weight, and inexpensive to manufacture.

Other and subordinate objects are also comprehended by my invention, all of which, together with the precise nature of my improvements, will be readily understood when the succeeding description and claim are read with reference to the drawing accompanying and forming part of this specification.

In said drawing:

Figure l is a fragmentary view in top plan of a wagon body equipped with the preferred embodiment of my improved support,

Figure 2 is a view in longitudinal section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a view in rear end elevation.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, my improved support has been shown therein as attached to a wagon body I having the usual tail end gate 2 confined between pairs of vertical guides 3 secured to the sides 4 of said body I, the bottom of the body I forming a ledge 5 exetending rearwardly of said gate 2 as is usual.

The support, according to the preferred embodiment of my invention, comprises a preferably wooden beam 6 adapted to extend rearwardly and centrally from the end gate 2 in substantially horizontal position, said beam having a rear end hook I bolted, as at 8, thereto for attachment of a scale, not shown, to said beam. At the opposite end of said beam 6 is a forwardly extending strap iron catch 9 secured, as by bolts I 0, to the bottom of said beam and having a right angled front end I I forming an upturned hook fitting upwardly between a strap-like keeper I2 and the rear face of the tail end gate 2, the keeper I2 being suitably secured to said gate adjacent the upper edge of the same.

Adjacent the rear end of the beam 5. a metal sleeve I3 is fixed in any desired manner on the beam. A pair of rod-like brace members I4 incline forwardly from opposite sides of said sleeve I3, respectively, to a pair of bearing plates I5 bolted, as at I6, to opposite sides of the body I, respectively, said plates having rear ends projecting beyond the rear of said body. The brace members I4 are rigidly secured to the sleeve I3, as by being made integrally therewith at one 5 end, and the opposite ends of said members are outturned, as at H, and removably extended through the rear ends of the bearing plates I5. A turnbuckle I8 is interposed in each brace member for lengthening or shortening the same to tighten the connection of the catch 9 with the keeper l2 and to center the beam Grelative to the body I. The brace members I4, bearing plates I5 and beam 6 are preferably disposed in a common substantially horizontal plane.

A rod-like supporting leg I9 of triangular form is pivotally mounted in a bearing 20 secured to the under side of the beam 6 intermediate the sleeve I3 and the front end of said beam, the arrangement being such that said leg I9 inclines downwardly and forwardly from the beam and rests fiat on the ledge 5 against the end gate 2 to maintain the beam 6 and brace members I4 in substantially horizontal position.

As will be seen, by flexing the brace members I4 inwardly, their ends I! may be detached from the bearing plates I5, and by tilting the beam 6 on the leg IS, the catch 9 may be withdrawn from the keeper I2 so that the support, with the exception of the bearing plates l5, may be removed from the wagon body I. In this connection, it is to be noted that the support removed may be attached to other wagon bodies similarly equipped with hearing plates I5.

The foregoing will, it is believed, sufiice to impart a clear understanding of my invention without further explanation.

Manifestly, the invention, as described, is susceptible Of modification without departing from the inventive concept, and right is herein reserved to such modifications as fall within the scope of the subioined claim.

What I claim is:

A scale support for attachment to the sides and tail gate of a wagon body comprising a beam, a staple-like keeper adapted to be attached to said gate, a, hook on one end of the beam upturned for inserting upwardly in said keeper, a triangular frame-like leg pivoted at one apex portion thereof to said beam inwardly of said end to be inclined downwardly toward the bottom of the body and providing an elongated side adapted to rest on said bottom and against said gate, a pair of extensible brace bars extending from opposite sides of said beam in divergent relation and adapted for attachment to the opposite sides of said body, and scale suspending means on the other end of said beam.

JAMES LEAIRTON PRINCE. 

